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> (poor punctuation on the “seller note” aside) If the author is referring to that title "seller note to customer" -- I think that is PayPal's standard email t

• cschmidt 4y ago
  I've always heard this is intentional with scammers. Their goal is to get you to call the number, so they have a cost if the user responds. Having some errors filters out the less gullible, who won't fall for the scam and will just cost the call center money.
  • kcartlidge 4y ago
    Microsoft Research wrote an interesting post on it [1]. Their conclusion was similar: "By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor." [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-say-they-are-from-nigeria/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
• comex 4y ago
  They might be referring to the extra spacing around the punctuation in “$479. 00” and “transaction, please”. “Dear Customer, You” is also incorrect. The standard correction would be to add a newline after the comma (which presumably the scammer was unable to do), making it a spacing or perhaps capitalization error. But another valid fix would be to replace the comma with a colon, so you could argue it’s a punctuation error…